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Somme (department)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

[A sentry of the 11th Cheshire Regiment in a trench], 1916-07

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S/20
Scope and Contents

195 x 145 mm. A soldier of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, keeps watch in a captured German trench near Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. He crouches on the rear slope of the trench while others rest.

Dates: 1916-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Amiens Cathedral, 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/213
Scope and Contents

49 x 70 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Amiens Cathedral [?1863], 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/55
Scope and Contents

184 x 252 mm. View of the West end of the Cathedral.

Dates: 1863
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Amiens Cathedral [?1863], 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011A/56
Scope and Contents

149 x 211 mm. Showing carved detail, probably on a tomb, in the interior of the Cathedral.

Dates: 1863
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Amiens Cathedral, May '20, 1920-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/4/13
Scope and Contents

50 x 70 mm. A view of the west façade of the cathedral.

Dates: 1920-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

First World War scrapbooks

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 319
Scope and Contents

The scrapbooks contain letters, press cuttings, sketch maps, printed army documents, including regulations and training instructions, tables of army rations, rough handwritten notes, movement orders, leave passes, sports papers and demobilisation papers. There are also photographs, many of which were taken during Clarke's regular tours of inspection among the frontline troops while he was at Bethune, and which include scenes from the trenches.

Dates: 1914 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notre Dâme. Paris, 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/214
Scope and Contents

50 x 70 mm.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).